Western Intervention in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings: Political Containment, Neoliberalism, and Imperial Legacies

Tuesday to Thursday, 23 to 25 February
Online Event
western intervention

 

Online Workshop, February 23-25, 2021
University of Oxford, Oxford School of Global and
Area Studies and the Middle East Centre

 

 

Convenors: SPF Fellows Susann Kassem and Shun Watanabe
Generously sponsored by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

 

**To register for each session please click on the day and time**

 

 

Tuesday, February 23, 9-10:15 am

 

Junko Chano (Sasakawa Peace Foundation) and Eugene Rogan (University of Oxford) Opening remarks

 

Susann Kassem (University of Oxford) and Shun Watanabe (Kyoto University) Introductory comments

 

Benjamin Schütze (Arnold Bergstraesser Institute Freiburg) Managing and controlling popular discontent: External ‘democracy promotion’ interventions in Jordan

 

Shun Watanabe (Kyoto University) Politics of reform as a new ruling formula in neoliberal Jordan: the case of decentralisation

 

 

Wednesday, February 24, 4-5:15 pm

 

Jacob Mundy (Colgate University) Why is the ‘everywhere war’ mostly in the Middle East and North Africa?

 

Kiri Santer (University of Bern) Governance assemblages in cooperative deterrence: the case of the Libyan Coast Guard

 

Negar Razavi (Northwestern University) Syria still haunts me: The moral-affective politics of Washington’s ‘non-intervention’ interventions in the Arab world

 

 

Thursday, February 25, 4-5:15 pm

 

Corinna Mullin (CUNY/ New School) Disciplining revolt: ‘Counter-terror’ as (neo)colonial intervention in post-uprising Tunisia

 

Catherine Herrold (Indiana University) Negotiating Western intervention: NGOs, foreign aid, and civil society in post-uprising Egypt

 

Susann Kassem (University of Oxford) Concluding remarks